MAGICK & MUSIC: COIL’S DREW MCDOWALL EXPLAINS RITUAL AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS

MAGICK & MUSIC: COIL’S DREW MCDOWALL EXPLAINS RITUAL AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS from ELECTRONIC BEATS Coil’s cult-like fanbase knows that the band, which fluctuated in membership over its more than twenty years of existence, was deeply entrenched in occult doctrines… Continue Reading

Could it be magick? The occult returns to the art world

    Could it be magick? The occult returns to the art world – from The Guardian Best known as a musical dissident with the proto-industrial bandThrobbing Gristle and later Psychic TV, Breyer P-Orridge has made visual art for decades as… Continue Reading

Language of the Birds: Occult and Art. Exhibition & Conference NY

The Occult Humanities Conference 2016: Contemporary Art and Scholarship on the Esoteric Traditions EXHIBITION Language of the Birds: Occult and Art Curated by Pam Grossman 80WSE 80 Washington Square East, New York, NY January 12 – February 13 Opening reception… Continue Reading

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Can you all hear me?

from http://www.octobergallery.co.uk/exhibitions/2014wsb/ WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Can you all hear me? Including works by Brion Gysin Liliane Lijn, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Shezad Dawood & Cerith Wyn Evans December 4,  2014 –  February 7, 2015 As the final event celebrating the centenary… Continue Reading

The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs by Matthew Levi Stevens

“In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that’s just ridiculous.… Continue Reading